Cultural Heritage
May 29, 2007
A profile of one of WA’s fastest growing towns by one of its most innovative and passionate wine makers. Wine by Brad’s Brad Wehr spoke to us last year about Australia’s wine industry. Brad has been in the wine industry […]
May 29, 2007
A reader has alerted us to ‘small grants for volunteers’ winners in Victoria and the National Australia Bank, as a sponsor of National Volunteer Week, reports on global trends in skill-based volunteering corporations. Help for Darfur community to meet & […]
May 21, 2007
PWF writes regularly about the achievements of Neighbourhood/Community Houses/Learning Centres but until a discussion with Dr Helen Sheil recently we hadn’t realised that ‘lifelong learning’ is education’s ‘poor cousin’ and there is no career pathway for those who teach adult […]
May 8, 2007
Ron Bradfield Jr, the head of Bradfield Indigenous Development and Empowerment Services and blogger behind Belongum’s Blog gives us his answer to last month’s question: What is cultural heritage? I believe our sense of Australian culture is so DENSE, so […]
May 6, 2007
Cooloola Shire, SE Qld, has joined the Climate Change groundswell. Zela Bissett emailed us about their small steering committee ‘trying to get things sorted’ for the region’s new Sustainability League. They have a lot of issues to deal with, so […]
April 24, 2007
The ANZ Bank plans to hire more indigenous rural and regional staff Great to hear ANZ chief executive John McFarlane announcing plans to recruit at least 300 young indigenous trainees by 2009, and and to promote 20 indigenous employees on […]
April 22, 2007
Seeing the breadth and passion of grassroots action groups in North America, the UK, Ireland and a few here in Oz – all working towards a sustainable future – I am amazed there has been NO news coverage of their […]
April 22, 2007
‘Learn how to get your customers talking about you – and win those repeat visits’ is an approach discussed in the most recent Tourism Tasmania Newsletter. The following seems to make very good sense – it would be great to […]
April 21, 2007
Here is a problem and what seems a sensible suggestion that should be considered by the ‘authorities’ if we/they are serious about emissions and sustainable development in all its dimensions…….. The PWF article ‘Melbourne to Sydney? An electric bike is […]
April 21, 2007
This big umbrella, The Australian Collaboration brings together some of Australia’s highest profile community organisations. You can lose yourself in it for hours as it investigates: social, cultural and environmental interests; acts as a forum for exchanging ideas and information […]
April 12, 2007
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to ‘cultural heritage’? While researching an update to last year’s Burrup Peninsula story, we came across a fascinating poll hidden on the margins of the Australian Conservation Foundation website. When asked […]
March 30, 2007
The regional Victorian, Castlemaine State Festival puts sustainability in the minds of arts fans and locals alike. The Age ran a terrific story yesterday, speaking to organisers and Castlemaine locals about their 10-day arts festival featuring opera, theatre, cabaret, music, […]